"Virginia" is scheduled for a limited release in Los Angeles, New York and other markets in mid-May. The June 16 debut will be its first West Michigan screening.

The movie was filmed in Holland and several other lakeshore-area locales. The story is set in Virginia Beach. Connelly plays an eccentric single mother in a small town; she's tangled in a longstanding affair with Harris' sheriff, who's running for office. Emma Roberts plays Harris' daughter.

The story is based loosely on events from Black's childhood. “In the past, I’ve described my untraditional childhood to people and they’d say that it sounded so dark,” Black said in a press release. “I would tell them that it was actually a lot of fun. I got to do a lot of things that other children never got to do because the rules were so different.”

Black, who stirred up controversy at Hope College for speaking openly about homosexuality, won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for "Milk." He most recently wrote the script for the biopic "J. Edgar."

The Waterfront Film Festival will take place June 14-17 in downtown Saugatuck.